Archive for July, 2008

After Dark in the Apocalypse

Monday, July 7th, 2008

I. Until fairly recently, I had a respectable monthly allowance of expendable income. The target of said expendable income had become, for better or worse, ritzy clothing retailers. Silk, modal, lace, one-hundred-dollar pairs of pants, elaborate bras, uncomfortable shoes: over the years, my wardrobe blossomed like an Anthropologie flower brooch. These days I make just [...]

All My Friends Are Married

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Every Tom and Dick and Harry. Check out the pictures from Kelly and Keegan’s wedding for frisbee golf nets, bagpipe players, nausea-inducing cigars, and the couple making like a less-morose-Lady-Shalott and drifting away in a canoe. Hells yes. All on board for Marriedtown. Never thrown. We camped out on the deserted Woodstock fair grounds that [...]

Branches: Prologue

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Today is around the time I’d hope to crank out another story in the Branches series, but since I devoted last week to writing a fictional piece for Love & Radio around a series of voice mails (that, unfortunately, over the weekend became an internet sensation and thus useless to us), today is finding me [...]